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Hello all,

I've read some of the requests from yesterday's digest (2:26 am on
5/1), and sent Ainae some updates.

First, there's now a filter on the user's reviews. You can choose
draft, tentative, final, all, or (tentative and final), and it will
only show you stories that you have reviewed that fit those status
choices.

Second, I fixed a sorting issue. There are 3 or 4 stories for which the
titles are a direct quote, and start with quotation marks. These were
sorting at the beginning of the list. I figured out how to make them
sort correctly. There were also a couple with spaces at the beginning
of the title. These looked right, but didn't sort right. I edited them
and fixed it. One of the 'quote title' stories had 'curly quotes.' I
had to change those to straight quotes. If you use " or ', simple
straight single or double quotes, it will now sort properly.

Third, in response to the request for a 'letter of the alphabet'
selector:
I won't do that, because it's a lot of work.

What I did instead was created a method for searching the start of the
author or title, rather than just anywhere. It was much easier, believe
me, and should give you the same functionality without too much extra
work.

If you put a '%' at the end of a search string (on the usersBrowse and
storiesBrowse pages only), it will search for entries STARTING with
your string. 'M%' searches for authors and/or titles starting with 'm'.
'aRaG%' searches for anything starting with 'arag' (e.g. 'Aragorn').
Case is and has always been ignored.

Since you can sort by ID, author, or title, I decided that the search
should go by whichever you're sorting by. By default, it searches
author, title, and summary. If you're sorting by author, and search for
'm%', it will only show you authors starting with 'm'. This makes sense
to me as a desired behavior. If it is sorted by ID, it will show titles
and authors starting with 'm'.

The same basic behavior works on the members/authors page, but with
nickname/email address, except that there's no way to sort by email
address, so 'm%' will always get nicknames and email addresses starting
with 'm'.

By the way, if you all want, I can change the default sorting behavior
on the stories page. It now sorts by ID, which is essentially
nomination order.
1) Would sorting by author make more sense as a default?
2) Would people wonder why those numbers were there and not sorted
properly?
3) Would it bother anyone but my wife (Elana) to have this list of
unsorted numbers on the page?

Warning: When Ainae loads these updates, there are new strings, so you
may need to reload the language file (link found at top of every page).

As you may have noticed, I can choose to modify the behavior of the
site at any time. There are some things that don't make sense to change
(like things that require big changes to the data structure), because
there's danger of corrupting the database, and there are also these
1000+ stories that use the current data structure, but things like
sorting, filtering, or what data to show, and what column to put it in,
where I'm not editing data, just showing it, are relatively safe to
change. The worst case scenario has us reverting to the previous
version.

My time is somewhat limited, but within reason, just make the
suggestions, and I'll see if I can do them. I'll try to check the
database and update it when I do something, but I can't guarantee that
I will always do that. I do read the MEFAwards and MEFAStaff lists, in
digest mode, but wouldn't mind getting direct emails if you don't want
to bother the whole list with some of this stuff.

If there are any geeks out there who want to discuss geeky details,
feel free to write, too.

Later,
Anthony

Here's a little geeky detail: Thank you! This fits the bill nicely, and I
appreciate your quick response!

- Barbara

>From: Anthony Holder <aaholder@swbell.net>
>
>Hello all,
>
>Third, in response to the request for a 'letter of the alphabet'
>selector:
>I won't do that, because it's a lot of work.
>
>What I did instead was created a method for searching the start of the
>author or title, rather than just anywhere. It was much easier, believe
>me, and should give you the same functionality without too much extra
>work.
>
>Later,
>Anthony

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-----Original Message-----
From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Anthony Holder
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 2:15 AM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] Requests Granted



Hello all,

I've read some of the requests from yesterday's digest (2:26 am on
5/1), and sent Ainae some updates.

First, there's now a filter on the user's reviews. You can choose
draft, tentative, final, all, or (tentative and final), and it will
only show you stories that you have reviewed that fit those status
choices.

Second, I fixed a sorting issue. There are 3 or 4 stories for which the
titles are a direct quote, and start with quotation marks. These were
sorting at the beginning of the list. I figured out how to make them
sort correctly. There were also a couple with spaces at the beginning
of the title. These looked right, but didn't sort right. I edited them
and fixed it. One of the 'quote title' stories had 'curly quotes.' I
had to change those to straight quotes. If you use " or ', simple
straight single or double quotes, it will now sort properly.

Third, in response to the request for a 'letter of the alphabet'
selector:
I won't do that, because it's a lot of work.

What I did instead was created a method for searching the start of the
author or title, rather than just anywhere. It was much easier, believe
me, and should give you the same functionality without too much extra
work.

If you put a '%' at the end of a search string (on the usersBrowse and
storiesBrowse pages only), it will search for entries STARTING with
your string. 'M%' searches for authors and/or titles starting with 'm'.
'aRaG%' searches for anything starting with 'arag' (e.g. 'Aragorn').
Case is and has always been ignored.

Since you can sort by ID, author, or title, I decided that the search
should go by whichever you're sorting by. By default, it searches
author, title, and summary. If you're sorting by author, and search for
'm%', it will only show you authors starting with 'm'. This makes sense
to me as a desired behavior. If it is sorted by ID, it will show titles
and authors starting with 'm'.

The same basic behavior works on the members/authors page, but with
nickname/email address, except that there's no way to sort by email
address, so 'm%' will always get nicknames and email addresses starting
with 'm'.

By the way, if you all want, I can change the default sorting behavior
on the stories page. It now sorts by ID, which is essentially
nomination order.
1) Would sorting by author make more sense as a default?
2) Would people wonder why those numbers were there and not sorted
properly?
3) Would it bother anyone but my wife (Elana) to have this list of
unsorted numbers on the page?

Warning: When Ainae loads these updates, there are new strings, so you
may need to reload the language file (link found at top of every page).

As you may have noticed, I can choose to modify the behavior of the
site at any time. There are some things that don't make sense to change
(like things that require big changes to the data structure), because
there's danger of corrupting the database, and there are also these
1000+ stories that use the current data structure, but things like
sorting, filtering, or what data to show, and what column to put it in,
where I'm not editing data, just showing it, are relatively safe to
change. The worst case scenario has us reverting to the previous
version.

My time is somewhat limited, but within reason, just make the
suggestions, and I'll see if I can do them. I'll try to check the
database and update it when I do something, but I can't guarantee that
I will always do that. I do read the MEFAwards and MEFAStaff lists, in
digest mode, but wouldn't mind getting direct emails if you don't want
to bother the whole list with some of this stuff.

If there are any geeks out there who want to discuss geeky details,
feel free to write, too.

Later,
Anthony




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Thank you Anthony, for all of your hard work!

Mari

>Hello all,
>
>I've read some of the requests from yesterday's digest (2:26 am on
>5/1), and sent Ainae some updates.
>
>First, there's now a filter on the user's reviews. You can choose
>draft, tentative, final, all, or (tentative and final), and it will
>only show you stories that you have reviewed that fit those status
>choices.
>
>Second, I fixed a sorting issue. There are 3 or 4 stories for which the
>titles are a direct quote, and start with quotation marks. These were
>sorting at the beginning of the list. I figured out how to make them
>sort correctly. There were also a couple with spaces at the beginning
>of the title. These looked right, but didn't sort right. I edited them
>and fixed it. One of the 'quote title' stories had 'curly quotes.' I
>had to change those to straight quotes. If you use " or ', simple
>straight single or double quotes, it will now sort properly.
>
>Third, in response to the request for a 'letter of the alphabet'
>selector:
>I won't do that, because it's a lot of work.
>
>What I did instead was created a method for searching the start of the
>author or title, rather than just anywhere. It was much easier, believe
>me, and should give you the same functionality without too much extra
>work.
>
>If you put a '%' at the end of a search string (on the usersBrowse and
>storiesBrowse pages only), it will search for entries STARTING with
>your string. 'M%' searches for authors and/or titles starting with 'm'.
>'aRaG%' searches for anything starting with 'arag' (e.g. 'Aragorn').
>Case is and has always been ignored.
>
>Since you can sort by ID, author, or title, I decided that the search
>should go by whichever you're sorting by. By default, it searches
>author, title, and summary. If you're sorting by author, and search for
>'m%', it will only show you authors starting with 'm'. This makes sense
>to me as a desired behavior. If it is sorted by ID, it will show titles
>and authors starting with 'm'.
>
>The same basic behavior works on the members/authors page, but with
>nickname/email address, except that there's no way to sort by email
>address, so 'm%' will always get nicknames and email addresses starting
>with 'm'.
>
>By the way, if you all want, I can change the default sorting behavior
>on the stories page. It now sorts by ID, which is essentially
>nomination order.
>1) Would sorting by author make more sense as a default?
>2) Would people wonder why those numbers were there and not sorted
>properly?
>3) Would it bother anyone but my wife (Elana) to have this list of
>unsorted numbers on the page?
>
>Warning: When Ainae loads these updates, there are new strings, so you
>may need to reload the language file (link found at top of every page).
>
>As you may have noticed, I can choose to modify the behavior of the
>site at any time. There are some things that don't make sense to change
>(like things that require big changes to the data structure), because
>there's danger of corrupting the database, and there are also these
>1000+ stories that use the current data structure, but things like
>sorting, filtering, or what data to show, and what column to put it in,
>where I'm not editing data, just showing it, are relatively safe to
>change. The worst case scenario has us reverting to the previous
>version.
>
>My time is somewhat limited, but within reason, just make the
>suggestions, and I'll see if I can do them. I'll try to check the
>database and update it when I do something, but I can't guarantee that
>I will always do that. I do read the MEFAwards and MEFAStaff lists, in
>digest mode, but wouldn't mind getting direct emails if you don't want
>to bother the whole list with some of this stuff.
>
>If there are any geeks out there who want to discuss geeky details,
>feel free to write, too.
>
>Later,
>Anthony
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
>
>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Holder
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:15 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Requests Granted
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've read some of the requests from yesterday's digest (2:26
> am on 5/1), and sent Ainae some updates.
>
> First, there's now a filter on the user's reviews. You can
> choose draft, tentative, final, all, or (tentative and
> final), and it will only show you stories that you have
> reviewed that fit those status choices.
>
> Second, I fixed a sorting issue. There are 3 or 4 stories for
> which the titles are a direct quote, and start with quotation
> marks. These were sorting at the beginning of the list. I
> figured out how to make them sort correctly. There were also
> a couple with spaces at the beginning of the title. These
> looked right, but didn't sort right. I edited them and fixed
> it. One of the 'quote title' stories had 'curly quotes.' I
> had to change those to straight quotes. If you use " or ',
> simple straight single or double quotes, it will now sort properly.
>
> Third, in response to the request for a 'letter of the alphabet'
> selector:
> I won't do that, because it's a lot of work.
>
> What I did instead was created a method for searching the
> start of the author or title, rather than just anywhere. It
> was much easier, believe me, and should give you the same
> functionality without too much extra work.
>
> If you put a '%' at the end of a search string (on the
> usersBrowse and storiesBrowse pages only), it will search for
> entries STARTING with your string. 'M%' searches for authors
> and/or titles starting with 'm'.
> 'aRaG%' searches for anything starting with 'arag' (e.g. 'Aragorn').
> Case is and has always been ignored.
>
> Since you can sort by ID, author, or title, I decided that
> the search should go by whichever you're sorting by. By
> default, it searches author, title, and summary. If you're
> sorting by author, and search for 'm%', it will only show you
> authors starting with 'm'. This makes sense to me as a
> desired behavior. If it is sorted by ID, it will show titles
> and authors starting with 'm'.
>
> The same basic behavior works on the members/authors page,
> but with nickname/email address, except that there's no way
> to sort by email address, so 'm%' will always get nicknames
> and email addresses starting with 'm'.
>
> By the way, if you all want, I can change the default sorting
> behavior on the stories page. It now sorts by ID, which is
> essentially nomination order.
> 1) Would sorting by author make more sense as a default?
> 2) Would people wonder why those numbers were there and not
> sorted properly?
> 3) Would it bother anyone but my wife (Elana) to have this
> list of unsorted numbers on the page?
>
> Warning: When Ainae loads these updates, there are new
> strings, so you may need to reload the language file (link
> found at top of every page).
>
> As you may have noticed, I can choose to modify the behavior
> of the site at any time. There are some things that don't
> make sense to change (like things that require big changes to
> the data structure), because there's danger of corrupting the
> database, and there are also these
> 1000+ stories that use the current data structure, but things like
> sorting, filtering, or what data to show, and what column to
> put it in, where I'm not editing data, just showing it, are
> relatively safe to change. The worst case scenario has us
> reverting to the previous version.
>
> My time is somewhat limited, but within reason, just make the
> suggestions, and I'll see if I can do them. I'll try to check
> the database and update it when I do something, but I can't
> guarantee that I will always do that. I do read the MEFAwards
> and MEFAStaff lists, in digest mode, but wouldn't mind
> getting direct emails if you don't want to bother the whole
> list with some of this stuff.
>
> If there are any geeks out there who want to discuss geeky
> details, feel free to write, too.
>
> Later,
> Anthony
>
>
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I second that!

Thanks, Anthony!

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> *Stares in awe at all the new geeky goodness*
>
>
>
> Anthony! You are sort of like Santa Claus!!!
>
>
>
> *Smooch*!
>
>
>
> Ariel
>
> www.bagendwest.net
>

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